COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Charles S. Hoyt, Sr., relate to his activities as surgeon with the 126th and 39th Regiments, New York Volunteers, with whom he served in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War; as New York State Assemblyman from Yates County (1853, 1867); and as secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (1869+).
Mrs. Jean Broughton Hoyt Smith's correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and other papers pertain to her training as a nurse at Bellevue Hospital (1902), her profession as an interior decorator, and other matters. Also, originals or copies of several letters to various members of the Hoyt family from or about Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and Charles James Folger, and a number of letters to Confederate soldiers from relatives and friends in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida describing conditions in the South as it was beset by Union forces.
Dates
- 1828-1956.
Creator
- Hoyt family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
2.1 cubic feet.
volumes volumes.
Abstract
Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Charles S. Hoyt, Sr., relate to his activities as surgeon with the 126th and 39th Regiments, New York Volunteers, with whom he served in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War; as New York State Assemblyman from Yates County (1853, 1867); and as secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (1869+).
Physical Description
Papers of the Hoyt family, including Civil War documentation and Jean Broughton Hoyt Smith's papers relating to her training as a nurse and her career as an interior decorator.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M.W. Warren
- Date completed:
- November 1997
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2003
- Date modified:
- Fredrika Loew, October 2018
- Accounts.
- Bellevue Hospital
- Board of Commissioners of Public Charities
- Diaries.
- Folger, Charles J. (Charles James), 1818-1884.
- Hoyt, Agnes Barnum.
- Hoyt, Charles S., 1822-1898.
- Hoyt, Charles S., Jr.
- Interior decoration.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government.
- Nursing.
- Photographs.
- Public welfare.
- Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
- Scrapbooks.
- Smith, Frederick Burroughs.
- Smith, Jean Broughton Hoyt.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 126th (1862-1865)
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 39th (1861-1865)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M.E. Warren
- Date
- March 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu